Firefox and opera not detecting new flash player installation

[Nitish Mittal]

Hi..... to all

I am using ubuntu 8.04....

I have un-installed older version version of adobe flash player (flash player 9)( sudo apt-get purge flashplugin-nonfree) and downloaded and installed flash player 10 (.deb file)

but but neither firefox and neither opera is detecting new flash player installation.

I have also tried to copy libflashplayer.so to /home/nitish/.mozilla.plugins directory but no effect.

here is the error what I get.........when I was tried to open youtube..

nitish@nitish-desktop:~$ firefox
LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /home/nitish/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so [libnss3.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory]
** Message: GetValue variable 1 (1)
** Message: GetValue variable 2 (2)
** Message: GetValue variable 1 (1)
** Message: GetValue variable 2 (2)
** Message: GetValue variable 1 (1)
** Message: GetValue variable 2 (2)
** Message: GetValue variable 1 (1)
** Message: GetValue variable 2 (2)
** Message: GetValue variable 1 (1)
** Message: GetValue variable 2 (2)
** Message: GetValue variable 1 (1)
** Message: GetValue variable 2 (2)

[Nitish Mittal (nitish-nit555)]

Finally flash player 10 starts working in my firefox, here is the ubuntuforums thread with solution:

http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-969667.html

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

This is not a firefox bug since it happens on opera as well and they have different engines and code base. moved task to flash instead. What did you do to make it work? if so can you please start clean and see if flash 10 fixes it.

[Nitish Mittal (nitish-nit555)]

I am using ubuntu8.04 and firefox requires the libnss3.so file, I searched my usr/lib directory and found the file named "libnss3.so.1d" then I created a link named libnss3.so to libnss3.so.1d

I need to created the following links in order to make flash player working:

ln /usr/lib/libnss3.so.1d /usr/lib/libnss3.so

ln /usr/lib/libsmime3.so.1d /usr/lib/libsmime3.so

ln /usr/lib/libssl3.so.1d /usr/lib/libssl3.so

ln /usr/lib/libplds4.so.0d /usr/lib/libplds4.so

ln /usr/lib/libplc4.so.0d /usr/lib/libplc4.so

ln /usr/lib/libnspr4.so.0d /usr/lib/libnspr4.so

Yes it is not a firefox bug and also not a flashplayer bug.........It is associated with the library names required to run the flash player......and also before installing flashplayer 10 , flash player 9 was working well (but without these libraies????).

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

I am still unable to reproduce this issue. I have all those libs as should anyone running firefox I'm thinking this is a locale issue not so much an Ubuntu bug. Please coinfirm with new install of those packages and make sure the links are gone before installing them again.

[Victor Vargas (kamus)]

Since this report have a long time without activity, could you check (if is possible) in latest version included in Karmic if this issue is still happening? Thanks in advance.